Sleep is important in cardiovascular health, especially after a heart attack. Deep sleep decreases cardiac inflammation. Another reason to sleep well.
––– 凄い –––
A new type of art form, made possible by generative AI.
Big news. Judge rules: Lake Oswego is now open to the public. Bad news for lake front homeowners. People don't respect property anymore. I predict assholes from Portland will want to see what they can do, just 'cause they can. I wonder if people will still want to pay those easement fees to maintain the lake as it is, now that anyone can enjoy it.
Update (14 November 2024): The judge says that "the city could come up with reasonable restrictions such as permits,
fees and boat cleaning requirements as well as time, place and manner
rules." So with fees, they can get the public to pay for lake maintenance and upkeep, too. That's more fair.
Working muscles help grow neurons. Exercising muscles produce myokines, which stimulate nerve growth. Supposedly exercise also stimulates secretion of brain-derived neurotropic factor, so that helps, too.
––– 凄い –––
What Trump is teaching us all about civics. I always wondered why, with separation of powers, the Executive Branch needed approval of the Senate to get the people he needs to help him. Turns out it never was a requirement. It just became an assumption over time. The president doesn't really need Senate confirmation for his cabinet member picks, actually. It's not in the Constitution.
––– 凄い –––
I agree, nerds shouldn't rule the world. Nerds think differently, and although they can calculate and solve defined problems quickly, they don't necessarily become good leaders. Elon Musk is different though – nerd doesn't completely describe him. He's a proven leader at his companies, but over other matters, we haven't seen his talents in practice, just yet.
––– 凄い –––
FastGlioma is a domain-specific AI that identifies gliomas very quickly, picking up tumors missed by conventional means,
––– 凄い –––
In iOS 18.1, Apple is adding reboot on inactivity, which means that your phone needs to unlocked at regular intervals, or else it will reboot. Boy, the police won't be happy with this.
––– 凄い –––
Section 230 does need reforming. I agree – once you start implementing algorithms, your Section 230 coverage should be gone.
––– 凄い –––
The grift will be gone. Oregon homeless advocates worry about Trump's plan to end homelessness. You would think they would be happy that the President will join them in fighting homelessness. But they know it will mean the end of the money flow, and pretty soon they will have to get real jobs. It was always in their best interest to make sure there was always a homelessness problem, so they would have a job.
––– 良くない–––
Oregon takes on the problem of patients boarding in emergency departments because there are no hospital beds. Their solution?
"To combat the problem, Oregon lawmakers passed House Bill 3396 in 2023, which set up the task force."
"The recommendations also give state agencies work."
"...to direct the Oregon Health Authority
and Oregon Department of Human Services to study regulations and look
for ways to improve flow of patients with complex needs"
"Another recommendation would expand Medicaid coverage for long-term care."
Yes, form task forces, give work to state agencies, more study regarding regulations, expand Medicaid... Oregon has no money and not enough people to fix the problem. A lot of people are flooding the emergency departments and hospital systems can't move faster.
Take a look at what the make up of the incoming Portland City Council looks like: socialists, former union leaders, social justice non-profits. Good luck, Portland.
––– 良くない–––
More useful macOS terminal commands. I might use mdfind. Brew is essential but not always reliable.
––– 凄い –––
Toyota pick-up trucks are the vehicle of choice for Mddle East and Norh African military. What an endorsement.
––– 凄い –––
What a failure. Portland's experiment with Ranked Choice Voting resulted in less civic engagement than before. Did people find it too confusing? Or did people just give up caring, which might be the case. Who to vote for? The progressive, the socialist, the liberal, the radical? What does it matter?
––– 良くない–––
Oregon's tax competitiveness has tumbled. Washington has really tumbled, especially with the 2023 capital gains tax law they passed. I know of folks who moved across the border to enjoy Washington's lack of income tax. And Seattle could have its own capital gains tax. I bet some people who moved to Washington regret do so now. Idaho is looking better and better.
––– 凄い –––
Dutch Bros is doing very well, now that they are transitioning out of Oregon and expanding to Arizona. Can't blame them.
––– 凄い –––
Cory Doctorow describes how you have to be a squeaky wheel to get by in the medical system. He describes his adventures with finding a lump on his body, and getting through diagnostic evaluation to treatment. But that may be due to the particular medical system that he's in, where medical care is modular and plug-and-play.
––– 良くない–––
Interested in installing a local LLM? Check out this guy's post.
LLMs are fun, but what the productive uses do they have?
First, LLMs are no good if correctness cannot be readily verified.
Second, LLMs have goldfish-sized working memory.
Third, LLMs are poor programmers.
So what are they good for?
Not worth the effort, if you ask me. First, LLMs are no good if correctness cannot be readily verified.
Second, LLMs have goldfish-sized working memory.
Third, LLMs are poor programmers.
So what are they good for?
- Proofreading has been most useful for me.
- Writing short fiction. Hallucinations are not a problem; they’re a feature!
- Generative fun
- Language translation.
Migration patterns of Oregonians. We lost 130,000 last year and most people who fled Oregon went to Washington, California, Texas, Arizona and Idaho. We got people mostly from California and I'm not sure that's a good thing. The fact that we can't seem to find good people for our top positions in industry suggests that the influx of immigrants are not the kind of people that's going to sustain the economy, but rather drain it. Maybe Californians fled because their governor is nuts, like with this new gas tax.
Mission creep indeed. A Medicaid insurer got into the business of buying houses for homeless people. No, no, no. They got their funding canceled, as they should. What a grift.
––– 良くない–––
You might want to think twice about getting care from a UCLA graduated physician Holy crap, this is the essence of DEI.
––– 良くない–––
Why do wet dogs shake? Turns out there's a gene that codes for that. Remove the Piezo2 gene, and they don't shake. Well, at least in mice, which shake, too. How a gene codes for shaking behavior is fascinating.
––– 凄い –––
It's not just Scientific American. The editor in chief of the journal, Science, is also woke, too. He doesn't call Trump a "fascist" but says that Trump is going to "undermine the truth for political gain". Gimme a friggin break, Holden.
––– 良くない–––
"Thinner and more pixels". Well, looks like Tim Cook's strategy is not dead. Just when I thought iPhones were as thin as they could be, Tim proves me wrong. Someone's going to put this in a back pocket, and it's going to bend.
––– 凄い –––
A Lewis and Clark law professor speculates on what a Trump win will mean for Portland. If Portland is allowed to be destroyed in riots as it was in 2017, then it's game over for the city. Businesses will close or move out. Insurance policies will be canceled and not renewed. Buildings will be vacant, and criddlers will move in. If you thought Gordon's Fireplace Shop was bad....
New rentals at 15 year low. Builders aren't building. Gee, who could have seen that coming?
Chegg is on its last legs. The homework answers shop is no longer relevant, due to ChatGPT. Just like the buggy whip business.
––– 凄い –––
The M4 Pro will have performance mode, too, and the M4 Max will have 12 performance and 4 efficiency cores. Unified memory will still be maxed out at 128 GB. I'm going to get this.
––– 凄い –––
Andrej Karpathy is not impressed by those YT videos that promise to teach you a subject in 10 minutes. It's true – a lot of those videos are a waste of time. Occasionally there will be worthwhile videos that do give justice to a topic, but YT has been polluted by so many other lousy videos.
––– 凄い –––
How the brains of liberals and conservatives differ. I believe some of this. Others I don't. I'm prepared to believe that people's brains have different circuitry depending on how they grew up, what they were exposed to and influenced by. But influences on political persuasion are not that clear cut. And what about libertarians?
––– 凄い –––
Google is trying to make Jarvis, Tony Stark's AI assistant. It's just another agentic framework with a recognizable name.
––– 凄い –––
Mullvad VPN is transitioning away from OpenVPN. They think WireGuard is the way to go. WireGuard is better, iif you don't have problems generating keys, like I sometimes do. Hopefully, the wrinkles will be smoothed out.
––– 凄い –––
No matter what you think about Trump, you have to be impressed with what's happened in the world since he won the election.
Google has a new TPU-based chip that supposedly rival NVIDIA's best. It's called Trillium. But there's a chip design method that is called AlphaChip that some are complaining about, saying it hasn't been verified. I don't know what the fuss is all about. I'm just happy that competition is good and that companies are working to push the limits. That gets a sugoi from me.
––– 凄い –––
Kitzhaber is right. The solution to Legacy Health System's problem is not to merge with OHSU, but to get financial assistance from the state – bailout money, until they recover. That would be the best solution.
––– 凄い –––
The optimal shape for beer glasses to keep beer chilled for the longest time. Does it really matter that much? Some professors have too much time on their hands, I think.
––– 凄い –––
Even more non-citizens caught on the Oregon voter rolls. I suspect there's a lot more they don't know about or aren't telling.
––– 良くない–––
Sen Boquist laments how long it's taking for Oregon to report election results. Entire countries can get results the same day. Not Oregon. Will anyone get fired for this incompetency? Not likely.
––– 良くない–––
Oregon in the news. Ambulance strikes a bicyclist. Then charges him for the ride to the hospital.
––– 良くない–––
Washington launches pilot project to provide basic needs for migrants and asylum-seekers. More money going to illegals.
––– 良くない–––
More on the proposed OHSU-Legacy merger. "There seems to be a sense that this merger is a foregone conclusion..." Yeah, that's what I sense, too. But if it doesn't happen, I doubt the Legacy system will be able to survive. And that would be a bad thing for Portland. The optimal solution would have been for Legacy to have had better leadership a while back, but that's water under the bridge now.
––– 良くない–––
Some people really like ChatGPT search. Some people don't. Maybe for non-mission critical searchers, but not for important stuff, like research.
––– 良くない–––
Teleprompter X is a teleprompter phone app. Something to consider if you need to give a speech. Probably a better look than when Kamala's celebrities had to speak.
––– 凄い –––
Ghidra is a National Security Agency's reverse engineering app. Why they offer it on a public GitHub is not clear, but hey.
––– 凄い –––
Because of all the people moving out of Oregon, the National Reapportionment Planning Project is going to dock Oregon one electoral college vote. Great job, Tina Kotek for making Oregon so crazy people want to leave.
––– 良くない––– Thoughts on Trump being president 45 and 47 –
Sometimes things work out for the best.––– 凄い –––